Will Masada II be the endgame? I am withdrawing from the battlefield of the war for the truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel, and the following is an explanation of why. More than three decades ago when I made my commitment to this war effort, in the full knowledge that it would make me persona non grata in the eyes of th ...

The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms" MADA" held a press conference on Wednesday which reviewed the Annual Report on the violations against Media freedom in Palestine during 2012. The conference was held at MADA’s headquarter in Ramallah. The conference was opened by the Chairmen of the Board of Directors Ghazi Hanania, who expressed that the past year witnessed a seriou ...

John Pilger says in the film: "We journalists... have to be brave enough to defy those who seek our collusion in selling their latest bloody adventure in someone else's country... That means always challenging the official story, however patriotic that story may appear, however seductive and insidious it is. For propaganda relies on us in the media to aim its deceptions not at a far away country bu ...

General view of Haifa From Mt. Carmel looking west , 1934-1939. (Photo: Maston Collection.) What does a Palestinian farmer who is living in a village tucked in between the secluded West Bank hills, a prisoner on hunger strike in an Israeli jail and a Palestinian refugee roaming the Middle East for shelter all have in common? They are all characters in one single, authentic, solid and cohesive narrati ...

A report of the Free Speech Hub of the TheHoot.org 01 January, 2013 Thehoot.org The year 2012 ended with a Kannada TV reporter, Naveen Soorinje, in jail for more than fifty days after the Karnataka High Court denied him bail. Mangalore-based Soorinje, was incarcerated from November 7, 2012 after police charged him under the UAPA and under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for reporting on the raid on a homestay p ...

Judging from the latest Israeli attacks on Gaza with its bombs and missiles, Palestinian journalists have been doing their best to get the news reported. <img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-233275" title="gaza_journalists attacked" src="http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/gaza_journalists-attacked.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="398" /><img class="alignright wp-image-2332 ...

h “In a moment of high theatre he dropped to his knees, placed his lips on the ground and kissed the land he has commanded by proxy”. This is how Robert Tait of the British Telegraph worded the moment Khaled Meshaal arrived in Gaza on Dec 07. Tait’s report on what many in Gaza and elsewhere consider a watershed event in the history of the Islamic movement, was mostly consistent with mainst ...